Originally Posted By: the G-man
 Originally Posted By: Matter-eater Man
Point is Obama didn't put this guy in. Kind of fucks up the whole conspiracy for the "republican investigators" (see that works both ways) with it starting with somebody Bush chose.


Not at all. If the "Bush appointee" was following instructions from his superiors and they were Obama and/or Obama appointees, the fact he once worked for a republican administration is wholly irrelevant to whether or not this is a failing of the current administration.

As for your other point, you are confusing ideology with party registration.


The Democrat argument that Shulman was a Bush appointee doesn't hold up. First off, he was selected as someone non-controversial that Democrats wouldn't have a problem appointing.
Second (as G-man pointed out) Shulman is a Democrat campaign donor.

When did all this IRS harassment of conservatives begin? Around March 2010 (coincidentally, right after Scott Brown won Ted Kennedy's former seat in the Senate). So this IRS harassment of 501 groups was clearly intended to kneecap Republican political rallying in the 2010 mid-terms, and then was continued to neutralize Republican opposition in 2012 as well. Last time I checked, Obama (not Bush) was president in 2010.
The point being, Shulman did all his dirty work, and unprecedented 157 visits to the White House, as an Obama operative.